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   rabble (rabble@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 19:40:57 JST rabble

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   • Johannes Ernst

   @j12t yeah I’m not sure I’ve seen it talked about publicly. The idea sounded good but the Reddit guys were really in to using a blockchain token as part of it. As far as I know the Reddit decentralized initiative got shut down. Which is why I think Bluesky being fully independent is great because it couldn’t get shutdown like that.

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     Johannes Ernst (j12t@j12t.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Jul-2025 19:41:01 JST Johannes Ernst

     Hey @rabble, in your podcast with Kara Swisher you mentioned that in the early days of what became Bluesky, there was an active discussion whether Bluesky should be a joint venture between Twitter and Reddit. A fascinating tidbit I hadn’t heard of! Can you say more about this? What were the arguments in favor and against? Why did it ultimately not go in that direction?

     Tim Chambers repeated this.